Deborah Groban Olson is an attorney with over 32 years' experience specializing in creating and advising employee-owned companies, ESOPs and cooperatives, representing companies, trusts, selling owners, employees and unions (www.esoplaw.com). She is Executive Director of the Center for Community Based Enterprise, Inc. (C2BE), an education and technical assistance center for employee owned businesses and cooperative development. She is former chair of the National Center for Employee Ownership. She has written and spoken extensively about ESOPs throughout the US and Europe. Admitted to the bar in MI. WI and IL. She graduated Order of the Coif, University of Wisconsin Law School 1976.

Education

1973-76 University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, J.D. 1976, Order of the Coif
1967-71 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, B.A. with honors 1971, psychology and history